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  • Accidental Innuendo:
    • "That's my Weiner!"
    • "SECRET BUTT FUN!"
  • Alternate Aesop Interpretation: Was "The General" about being in touch with your feminine side, or about being appreciated for your own talents?
  • Cliché Storm: Not a bad one, but there's nothing really new about it and the plots are fairly predictable with a few exceptions.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: A few examples, given the wide range of characters involved:
    • Zipper from "Zipper the Zoomit Dog". Her voice is easily recognized by Tara Strong who also voiced Twilight Sparkle.
    • Pepper from "The K9 Kid" and "It's Elementary, My Dear Pup Club" thanks to being a pretty good detective for her age.
  • Jerkass Woobie:
    • Sterling Von Oxnard in "My Fair Rebound". He tries to sabotage Rebound during the dog show, but only because he thinks that, if he loses, his owner will put him up for sale. Why? Because that's what most of his previous owners did. It makes it much more satisfying when Mildred finally starts showing him some love at the end of the episode.
    • Cookie during the second half of "Mutternal Instincts". Sure, she deliberately prevented Cupcake from getting a home, but it was only because they shared a strong bond with each other.
    • Ace is this when his reason on why his attitude against dogs was revealed. He used to be best friends with a puppy until the same puppy left to be with his perfect person, leaving Ace lonely and heartbroken.
    • Leonard McLeish is this, to a degree, when you consider how the guy just wants approval from his mother and to be recognized.
  • Memetic Molester: Poor Niblet, thanks to his infamous "Secret butt fun" line.
  • Memetic Mutation: SECRET BUTT FUN!Explanation
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • There's the cult-like family of cats owned by a Crazy Cat Man named Bernie in "Hello Kitten". The lead cat speaks in an unhinged tone about how they never leave the house and are so comfortable with their lives as she and the others gang up on the adoptee kitten Spoons. Other cats in this family are shown with crazy eyes and performing typical cat activities in an almost robotic manner. Their mannerisms, as well as the rundown house they live in, make you wonder just what he does to them.
    Lead Cat: None of us has left the house in ages...
    • "Fright at the Museum" has a few instances of this for younger viewers, due to its plot of an evil mummy cat seemingly coming back to life. Squirt and Niblet have seemingly lost their friends and are being hunted by this moaning, groaning undead feline. It turns out to be the chief security guard's pet cat dressed up so the guard can repair the real thing. And their friends were only locked away in the guard's closet the whole time. However, the real mummy cat's eyes start to glow...and the Pound Puppies are trapped in said closet right next door...
    • While it's a bit Narmy, "Zoltron" begins with the titular alleged alien-Pug making eerie whining noises and essentially stalking Olaf with a constant, creepy stare.
    • In-verse, Freddie of "Nightmare on Pound Street" was this for several people, especially on Halloween, due to his deformed face.
  • Seasonal Rot: The final season is seen as this to some fans as a majority of the episodes of that season were considered dull and lacked the engagement the episodes of the previous seasons possessed.
  • So Okay, It's Average: General consensus is that it's not too bad a show, but nothing really outstanding, either. Most fans expecting another My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (or given who created the series, another Recess) were disappointed.
  • Squick: The first part of Pound Preemies features all the wonderfulness of puppy birth. It's not as bad as most examples, and it isn't shown on screen (it is a kids' show, after all), but it can be slightly uncomfortable to more squeamish viewers.
  • Viewer Gender Confusion: Patches. He sounds like a girl (obviously because he is voiced by Jessica DiCicco, yet he is often referred to as male. He also doesn't have eyelashes.
  • Watch It for the Meme: Some of the first few fans only saw it for "Secret butt fun". As well as the fact that John DiMaggio delivers this line who is famously known for playing Bender and Jake the Dog.
  • The Woobie:
    • Yipper from the episode "The Yipper Caper". He spends most of the episode with low self esteem, whimpering because he thinks nobody wants him. Of course, he gets a happy ending but just watching in the the beginning and middle parts of the episode is enough to want to cuddle him.
    • Taboo from the episode of the same name which has him suffering low-self esteem after strings of "bad-luck" happening around him by the same cats whom "cursed" him VIA act of sabotage for tuna.
    • Niblet and Giblet in the near end of "When Niblet Met Giblet", when they're forced to break up.
    • Spoons from "Hello Kitten". She's prevented by Ace from living with her best dog friend and the two owners the kennel kittens put her with are crazy.

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